Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Ansi]

Blizzard registred certificate for domain Rift of Aln. crt. sh/?q=Blizzard

https://x.com/marlamin/status/1720246440721629470

[Frook513]

if they do a purely cosmetic upgrade ex: buldings, tents, lamps etc, they could get away without revamping the whole questline, but imo they have to completely redo it all, and i dont know how long that would take, knowing that they hired a f ton of people when DF released.

[Redwyrm]

The thing about 5 levels versus 10 is that if they keep doing 10 levels each expansion they are back to needing a level squish sooner rather than later

[Cheezits]

No revamp, no specs/class, no race. 4 zones on a hidden island.

[Ersula]

I'll laugh my butt off if the Algarian Stormrider is a mechanical gryphon created by Earthen artificers.

(Remembering Titan Technology effectively uses stone instead of metal & silicon.) Oh my god Teriz pulled me around to fully expecting rock gryphons.

Leveling gives them a reason to have new quests but yeah.

They add new quests every expansion. That's why a post-timeskip EK & Kalimdor make sense for the setting of an expansion. Like I already pointed out, the new quests they do for that would become the leveling experience in the following expansion anyway.

[ercarp]

For the record, there was another "World of Warcraft" leak on October 24th that also claimed the world would receive only a visual update. So that's one thing connecting these two leaks. Of course it's possible this "leaker" just saw the earlier WoW leak and decided to base theirs off of it...

[Nebron]

The moment the opening ceremony starts or right before is when you start paying attention. If there is a press embargo it is likely set to the opening, which means all the info will be out there before the announcement is actually done. If there isn't, they might drop it all the moment the announcement is happening, which would be a first as well.

Which technically means, even though you may now what's next from WoWhead faster, just enjoy the reveal first-hand from the Blizzard itself!

[Amstrup]

Anyone that can link the cool but fake void wow logo?

[Gleeman]

The thing about 5 levels versus 10 is that if they keep doing 10 levels each expansion they are back to needing a level squish sooner rather than later

I don't mind Blizzard doing a number squish for ilevel/level/damage/hp etc every time we reach level 90.

[Teriz]

That is definitely something I haven't seen considered: That it's not actually a griffin

It kind of makes sense given that the Algarians are essentially rock dwarves. Their mounts would probably need to be mechanical to carry them.

Also a mechanical gryphon just sounds cool.

[wonderspace]

After the Overwatch leak today, this Blizzcon leak has much more credibility
https://imgur.com/a/S5dWyDq

It talked about a big Dwayne Johnson looking guy with Polynesian islands - just as the new Overwatch hero leaked was!

[ercarp]

Anyone that can link the cool but fake void wow logo?

You mean this one?

[Marlamin]

Which technically means, even though you may now what's next from WoWhead faster, just enjoy the reveal first-hand from the Blizzard itself!

Definitely, some of us have to spoil the announcement for ourselves for work but if I didn't have to I would most definitely just have the stream on fullscreen and nothing else.

[Yarathir]

You mean this one?

Bonestorm has a rival.

[Europah]

After the Overwatch leak today, this Blizzcon leak has much more credibility
https://imgur.com/a/S5dWyDq

It talked about a big Dwayne Johnson looking guy with Polynesian islands - just as the new Overwatch hero leaked was!

We knew about mauga and his looks for years now, nothing new there

[Amstrup]

You mean this one?

The other one :b

[Keyalios]

The thing about 5 levels versus 10 is that if they keep doing 10 levels each expansion they are back to needing a level squish sooner rather than later

Exactly why I prefer 5. I don't want to be back to level 120.

[Edoll]

After the Overwatch leak today, this Blizzcon leak has much more credibility
https://imgur.com/a/S5dWyDq

It talked about a big Dwayne Johnson looking guy with Polynesian islands - just as the new Overwatch hero leaked was!

That’s too small to read. What does it say?

[Teriz]

After the Overwatch leak today, this Blizzcon leak has much more credibility
https://imgur.com/a/S5dWyDq

It talked about a big Dwayne Johnson looking guy with Polynesian islands - just as the new Overwatch hero leaked was!

tbf, the new Overwatch hero has been known in OW circles for some time. As soon as people figured out it was a tank, they knew it was Mauga. My niece told me it was Mauga back in September.

[anaheim-shhh]

returning to the 5-level expac model sounded awful to me too but it will make sense once you see what they're doing to leveling overall. there will prob be an emphasis on how we have constantly been squishing/chopping/negating player levels/dmg/etc and this is a sort of "this is how its going to be going forward" deal. no more squishes, no more cutting our levels in half again in another 10 years. permanence.

they wont even mention the level cap being raised in the feature trailer but simply a "ADVENTURE: a new leveling experience" and i guess we will hear more in the whats next panel later because it is going to be polarizing... i'm all in though

re: cosmetic revamp. no updating storylines. it's about bringing the two 'main' continents of azeroth in line with the modern asset quality of the last few expansions. i guess those questlines and stuff are just not seen as being worth the dev effort? flying over them will be prettier lol

i can't justify their reasoning, just trying to fill in any blanks i can...